How to Make Enchiladas

Enchiladas have been around in one form or another since the pre-Columbian times. In fact, it seems that people were figuring out how to make enchiladas almost as long as there have been tortillas. The ancient Aztecs made enchilada dishes consisting of a fried tortilla topped with salsa and cheese, covered by another tortilla and topped off with a fried egg. Though these dishes existed for centuries, the term "enchilada" (which literally means "chili filled") wasn't coined until the 19th century, and the original dish has been all but completely transformed since its early days.
Today's North American enchiladas usually consist of corn or flour tortillas wrapped around almost any filling you can imagine, then topped with sauce and baked. Shrimp, chicken, beef and cheese are all popular fillings, and sauces can range from fiery red chili sauce to a traditional mole poblano. This recipe for how to make enchiladas is perfect for busy weeknights when you don't have the time to go all out, but want to serve a delicious home-cooked meal.

-Hey everyone, I'm Judith. Well today, I'm gonna be showing
you how to make a fantastic Mexican dinner dish. That's
right. I'll be making Easy Beef Enchiladas. So, what you'll
need for this is 1 pound ground beef; 1 package
which is about 1 ounce of taco seasoning, which we'll
be using today or burrito seasoning mix; 1 can, about
16 ounces, of refried beans; 1 can (10.75 ounce) of
Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup; 1 chopped medium onion; 1 cup
cooked regular long-grain white rice which is optional, we won't
be using it today; 12 flour (10-inch) tortillas, warmed; 1-1/2
cups prepared enchilada sauce; shredded Cheddar cheese. Well, I really,
really like making this one. It's fun. You can get
your family involved and taste just fantastic. So, first things
first, let's get a large skillet here to a medium
heat. Now, what we gonna do first is brown our
ground beef into the pan that goes. We'll separate that
out and we wanna cook our ground beef until it
gets brown on all side. Make sure you give it
a good stir and separate the beef as you go.
So, once that's brown, then we can continue adding in
the other ingredients. Well, our ground beef has browned very
nicely just as we wanted. We've drained off any excess
fat there. So, it's not so liquidy. Now, we preheated
our oven to 353 Fahrenheit. So, that's getting nice and
hot for our baking. So at this point, we now
wanna add in some of the other ingredients. So in
goes this taco seasoning that we have onto the beef.
Lovely, that's just gonna give it a really kick and
flavor, get that on a medium heat and goes our
cheese soup. Our beans go in there too, some of
this lovely refried beans. You'll have to take that apart
a little with the spatula because it's pretty tough to
handle those beans sometimes and goes the onions, fantastic. So,
get your spatula and breakup the beans and get all
those ingredients round mixed in to each other, so that's
gonna be a fantastic filling for our corn tortillas. So,
we'll mix all that in, get those onions cooking, and
that heated through, only couple of minutes should be fine.
So, all of our ingredients have mixed together nicely and
heated through. So, we can use that filling now to
put inside our tortillas. So, we have here some flour
tortillas. Obviously, if you wanna use corn, that's fantastic too.
So, now it's the fan part, get your children involved.
This is what's fun. So, let's get a nice large
spoon and get a good amount of the mixture and
all we gonna do is fill our tortillas with this
lovely flavorful filling, not too packed, but just enough. We
have a 3 quart baking dish right here as well
and we're gonna use that to cook in. So, you
can fold that once, fold it twice, then seam side
down where we've folded it. We're gonna put in to
the dish like so. There you go, and will continue
doing it with the rest of our tortillas, and actually
the practice of rolling tortillas and filling it with different
kinds of fillings dates back to the Mayan times can
you imagine. So, from Mayan times until now, we're still
rolling our tortillas because that tastes good, and the wonderful
thing about making enchiladas is that it's very inexpensive to
make. It's delicious, its filling, and also you can use
things that you have around the house. So, if you
don't have ground beef, but you have fish or vegetables,
you can threw them in there, into the tortilla, into
the oven and that's all we need to do. So,
we'll keep doing this until all our tortillas are filled
and we'll put on the other ingredients then. So, we
rolled all of our tortillas, get as many as you
can fit in to the baking dish comfortably and you
can use another baking dish for remaining day if you
need to. So, next thing is to get our lovely
enchilada sauce and all we gonna do is pour that
on top of it like so, perfect. So, it covers
all of the tortillas and that is gonna give our
enchiladas a nice kick. Alright, and last, but not the
least our cheddar cheese, shredded cheese here and we're just
gonna sprinkle that all the way on top. Be generous
with the cheese because that's gonna melt on top, gonna
make it taste extra good. So, if you got a
little extra, you can put that on there and that
will be fantastic. Alright, so that goes in the oven
350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes until it's nice
and hot and bubbly and that's gonna be a fantastic
dinner dish. Well, our enchiladas are out of the oven.
They've been in there about 20 minutes and they are
looking fantastic all of that gorgeous cheese has melted into
the corn tortillas and they're just looking great. So, we're
gonna plate that up like so and as I said,
this is just such a great dish to serve when
friends come over or for the family or just be
yourself if you're feeling selfish anyway. There you go, plate
one up like that, looking good, let's just cut into
it, just a fun, just so we can see what
we have here. There you go all that lovely ground
beef mixture. is in there and nice and soft of
these tortillas and it's just delicious, there you go. That's
how you make your Easy Beef Enchiladas.

What You'll Need

1 pound ground beef

1 1 ounce package taco seasoning mix or burrito seasoning mix

1 16 ounce can refried beans

1 10 3/4 ounce can Campbell's® Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup

1 medium onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup)

1 cup cooked regular long-grain white rice (optional)

12 flour tortillas (10-inch), warmed

1 1/2 cups prepared enchilada sauce

Shredded Cheddar cheese

Step By Step

1

Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cook the beef in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until well browned, stirring often to separate meat. Pour off any fat. Stir the seasoning mix, beans, soup, onion and rice, if desired, in the skillet.

2

Divide the beef mixture among the tortillas. Roll up the tortillas and place seam-side down into a 3-quart shallow baking dish. Pour the enchilada sauce over the filled tortillas and sprinkle with the cheese.

3

Bake for 20 minutes or until the enchiladas are hot and bubbling.

Learn how to make enchiladas and you'll be able to put a quick and easy slice of Mayan history on your table whenever you feel like spicing things up. After all, when a melty, Southwestern sensation takes only 35 minutes, there's no reason it can't become a regular player in your weekly meal lineup.